Epistemic status: I came up with this an hour ago, this is a fun light-hearted post where I'm enjoying illustrating this idea, which seems true for the most part.

[Crossposted from my blog, BlueprintingHeaven.]

When it comes to the frontier of AI development, we have this concept of "jaggedness". AIs are much better at some kinds of tasks than others.

And to that I say, you are assuming our circle of capabilities is God! How dare you suggest our circle is the Right and True one?

To be clear, jaggedness is a useful term, obviously it's "relative to humans" because we are humans, there are no problems here, I'm sure people are already aware of this and if they're not it's just because it hasn't crossed their minds, I just want to say this fun thing.

https://x.com/LaibaRehmanRJ/status/2107123232675414172

Assume the circle of human capabilities are showing the difficulty level of each task, and let's say we have an infinite number of axes emanating from the centre going from zero difficulty to infinite difficulty, and assume the human capability circle is a unit circle.

Then, if you have a capability level of 1.0 for humans (which is the case on [...]

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First published:
October 5th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n952MZndfNxuLCeFk/reverse-jaggedness-and-universal-ajaggedness

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“Reverse Jaggedness and Universal Ajaggedness” by Laiba Rehman ✦ RJ

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“Reverse Jaggedness and Universal Ajaggedness” by Laiba Rehman ✦ RJ